Blast Kills Survivor of Deadly Passover Attack

After Arkady Wieselman narrowly escaped Israel’s deadliest suicide bombing by walking out of a hotel dining room moments before a blast killed 29 people, he phoned his family to say his survival was a miracle.

After Sunday’s blast in the vegetable market in Wieselman’s home city of Netanya, his family’s phone was silent.

Nearly two months after surviving the suicide blast at the hotel, Wieselman, along with two other Israelis, was killed in the city’s market by a suicide bomber dressed like a soldier.

Wieselman, a chef at the Park Hotel, had helped prepare a Passover Seder meal March27 when a suicide bomber walked into the packed dining hall.

Just before the bomber blew himself up, Wieselman had left the dining room to get something from the kitchen’s freezer.

Hotel manager Rina Hamamy said she arrived at the scene five minutes later to find him tending to the injured.

“He helped save the people. I thought it was impossible that something like this would happen again to the people at the hotel,” she said.